On this blog, Professor Thaddeus Pope tracks judicial, legislative, policy, and academic developments concerning medical futility and the limits on individual autonomy at the end of life.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Private Practice -- Pulling the Plug
On episode 318 of Private Practice, a woman's husband and DPAHC decides to remove his comatose wife's ventilator. But the wife is a surrogate mother and the parents of the fetuses want the patient's life support continued until the babies can be delivered. (This is legally required in most jurisdictions.) What I liked was at 8:10, during a confrontation between the husband and the parents, the parents say "we got a lawyer." There is a dramatic pause and jaw dropping.
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I must watch this awful dreck called a TV show now that you told me this. They also did a bad bad episode featuring morphine and hastened death with some poorly written scenes.
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